Operation Promotion Walkthrough
You are up for promotion at Hadron Security. Your senior lead, Mara, has handed you a solo engagement against RecruitCorp, a small recruiting firm with a public-facing portal.
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wget
The wget quick reference: install and verify, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and one command for every real situation. Resume a broken download, mirror a site for offline viewing, pull a list of URLs, reuse a login cookie, POST a form, and rate-limit to stay quiet.
sqlmap
The sqlmap quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real situation. Confirm an injectable parameter, feed a saved Burp request, fingerprint the DBMS, walk the dbs/tables/columns ladder, dump only the columns you need, grab password hashes, evade a WAF with tamper scripts, and route through a proxy.
Nikto
The Nikto quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real scan. Scan HTTP and HTTPS, hit odd ports, reach a vhost by Host header, tune out the noise, proxy through Burp, save a machine-readable report, and pull just the findings.
dirsearch
The dirsearch quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real content-discovery task. Pick a wordlist, append extensions, filter soft-404s by size, recurse into found directories, scan a list of hosts, save JSON, and proxy through Burp.
feroxbuster
The feroxbuster quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real situation. Run recursive content discovery, cap depth, filter soft-404 noise by size or words, add extensions, scan authenticated with a cookie, follow redirects, proxy through Burp, save JSON, and resume an interrupted scan.
Wfuzz
The Wfuzz quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real situation. Fuzz paths, query and POST parameters, headers, cookies, and virtual hosts, filter custom-404 noise by size, brute a login with two markers, encode payloads on the fly, and proxy through Burp.
CeWL
The CeWL quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real situation. Crawl an authorized site, build a wordlist from its own words, tune depth and length, harvest emails and document authors, rank by frequency, then feed hydra, john, and hashcat.
curl
The curl quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real situation. POST JSON, follow redirects, reuse cookies, pin DNS, resume a download, ignore a self-signed cert, time a slow endpoint, and proxy through Burp.
Gobuster
The Gobuster quick reference: modes, flags, a modular cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real task. Brute-force directories and files, discover vhosts and DNS subdomains, filter false positives by status and length, fuzz with the FUZZ keyword, route through Burp, and enumerate open S3 buckets.
WPScan
The WPScan quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real situation. Enumerate users, find vulnerable plugins and themes, pull exposed config backups, run an authorized login attack, tune detection-mode noise, and parse the JSON with jq.
WhatWeb
The WhatWeb quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real situation. Fingerprint a target, tune aggression, chase redirects to the real app, hit a vhost by Host header, scan a list, proxy through Burp, and save structured JSON.
ffuf
The ffuf quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real situation. Fuzz directories and extensions, discover hidden parameters and virtual hosts, fuzz JSON and login bodies, calibrate away catch-all pages, filter by size, words, or regex, recurse, and replay a captured request.
SecLists
The SecLists quick reference: the folders that matter, the file tools and flags you pair with a list, and a modular cheat sheet. Pick a web-content list, brute subdomains, fuzz a vhost, feed ffuf and gobuster, run a gentle Hydra login test, crack hashes offline, and carve a big list into a focused slice.
Amass
The Amass quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real recon situation. Enumerate subdomains passively then actively, load API keys for real coverage, brute force names, pull JSON with jq, find related domains by WHOIS/ASN/CIDR, diff the stored database, and validate before you scan.
testssl.sh
The testssl.sh quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real situation. Confirm old protocols are off, read the certificate chain, run every named-vuln check, list ciphers, scan STARTTLS mail ports, and pin one backend behind a load balancer.
DIRB
The DIRB quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real scan. Run a first pass, append extensions, scope one directory, scan behind basic auth, reuse a session cookie, proxy through Burp, and survive a wildcard server.
sslscan
The sslscan quick reference: flags, a modular copy-paste cheat sheet, and a worked breakdown of every real situation. Scan a non-standard TLS port, upgrade a STARTTLS mail service, set SNI on a shared host, check for Heartbleed, read the cipher and certificate output, and diff a hardening change over time.
Mr Robot Walkthrough
The Mr. Robot virtual machine (VM) is an exciting challenge inspired by the hit TV series Mr. Robot. It features three hidden keys, progressively increasing in difficulty.